Chapter I introduction background

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

1. 
   Background
   

As we know that all people in the world using language to communicate with the other. Billion years ago, philosophers in ancient societies were interested in how humans acquired the ability to understand and produce language well before empirical methods for testing those theories were developed, but for the most part they seemed to regard language acquisition as a subset of man's ability to acquire knowledge and learn concepts.
The philosophers conclude that human learn to communicate with using imitate of sound. Plato said that that human learn word-meaning mapping in some form was innate. Sanskrit grammarians debated for over twelve centuries whether humans' ability to recognize the meaning of words was God-given (possibly innate) or passed down by previous generations and learned from already established conventions. In this paper the writer will discuss about language acquisition, also the part of language acquisition such as first and second language acquisition, factors influencing in first and second language acquisition, stages and strategy for language acquisition, and the last is the differences between Language acquisition and learning language.

2. 
   Limitation of problem
   

1. 
   What is definition of language acquisition?
   
2. 
   What is the meaning of first and second language acquisition?
   
3. 
   What factors can influence first and second language acquisition?
   
4. 
   What stages and strategy for language acquisition?
   
5. 
   What the differences between language acquisition and learning language?
   

3. 
   Purposes
   

1. 
   To describe definition about language acquisition.
   
2. 
   To describe about the meaning of first and second language acquisition.
   
3. 
   To knowing factors can influence first and second language acquisition.
   
4. 
   To inform stages and strategy for language acquisition.
   
5. 
   To describe differences between language acquisition and learning language.